Definition
your vital organs list richer with extra details on each one’s key functions.
Definition:
Vital organs are the essential organs in the body that are necessary for survival, because they perform life‑sustaining functions such as controlling body processes, circulating blood, and enabling breathing. If they stop working, a person cannot survive.
The main vital organs in the human body are:
1. Brain 🧠 –
Controls thoughts, memory, emotions, and movements
Regulates heartbeat, breathing, and body temperature
Processes sensory information (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell)
2. Heart ❤️ –
Pumps blood throughout the body
Delivers oxygen and nutrients to cells
Removes waste products like carbon dioxide
Maintains blood pressure
3. Lungs 🫁 –
Take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide
Help maintain the body’s pH balance
Filter small blood clots and air bubbles
Produce certain hormones
4. Liver –
Filters toxins from the blood
Produces bile for fat digestion
Stores vitamins, minerals, and glycogen
Helps in blood clotting and breaking down old red blood cells
5. Kidneys –
Remove waste and excess water from the blood (urine formation)
Maintain salt and mineral balance
Help control blood pressure
Produce hormones for red blood cell production and bone health
6. Skin (sometimes considered vital) –
Protects internal organs from injury and infection
Regulates body temperature through sweating and insulation
Senses touch, temperature, and pain
Produces vitamin D when exposed to sunlight
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Is it possible to measure your heart size at home?
How does the heart maintain blood pressure?
Explain the ways how you can measure your heart size with and without a professional.
Why does the kidney maintain salt and mineral balance?
Why is salt and mineral needed in the body?
What type of toxins does the kidney filter? And why?
How does biles help for fat digestion? Why is fat digestion important?
How does the skin absorb vitamin B?